Over 20 years after the Supreme Court found the Texas law unconstitutional, a proposed bill would repeal the ban on so-called 'homosexual conduct.'

A repeal of the state’s defunct ban on gay sex cleared the Texas House on Friday, following a nail-biter vote recount. On Thursday, lawmakers voted 72-55 to give the first approval to House Bill 1738. The lead dropped to 56-55 Friday, prompting a vote verification that changed the count to 59-56.

Texas lawmakers voted Thursday to repeal the state’s longstanding ban on gay sex, sending legislation to do so to the state Senate in a historic and bipartisan vote. Texas’s defunct ban on “homosexual conduct,